Leonardo Blair
Senior Reporter
Leonardo Blair is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer whose career spanned secular media in the Caribbean and New York City prior to joining The Christian Post in 2013. His early work with CP focusing on crime and Christian society quickly attracted international attention when he exposed a campaign by Creflo Dollar Ministries in 2015 to raise money from supporters to purchase a $65 million luxury jet. He continues to report extensively on church crimes, spiritual abuse, mental health, the black church and major events impacting Christian culture.
He is a 2007 alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was an inaugural member of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York City.
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'Prophet' Brian Carn pleads guilty to obstructing IRS, claims he won’t go to prison
Self-styled prophet and leader of Kingdom City Church in North Carolina, Brian Carn Jr. is now facing three years in prison after pleading guilty to obstructing the IRS’ efforts to collect more than $600,00 in outstanding taxes. He insists however that he won’t be going to prison because he knows how to “handle that stuff in the spirit.”
7 women among 10 filing new sex abuse lawsuits naming Paul Havsgaard, Harvest Christian Fellowship
Seven women are among 10 new individuals who recently filed federal lawsuits alleging they were repeatedly sexually abused and trafficked by former Harvest Christian Fellowship pastor Paul Havsgaard while living in now-defunct children’s homes in Romania operated by the California megachurch.
Ex-Ark Encounter, Creation Museum band member gets 15 years for abusing teenage boy
Michael Howard, a former member of TrueSong — the resident musical act of the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky — has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a teenage boy for several years in the congregation where he served as worship leader.
Shooting at Greg Locke’s home sparked by 'beef' between stepson and shooter: prosecutor
A 2024 shooting at the former home of controversial Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke, which forced him to relocate, was sparked by a “beef” between the shooter and his 17-year-old stepson and was not an attack on the pastor or his ministry, according to the Wilson County District Attorney’s Office.
Lecrae is no longer worried about pleasing everyone in the room after finding freedom
Grammy Award-winning Christian hip-hop artist, activist and CEO, Lecrae Moore, popularly known by his first name, is unapologetically free says and he’s no longer worried about pleasing everyone in the room.
Pastor John-Paul Miller pleads not guilty to cyberstalking wife until her death
South Carolina Pastor John-Paul Miller who is accused of making false statements to federal investigators and cyberstalking his estranged wife, Mica Miller, for nearly two years until she took her own life in 2024 has pleaded not guilty to the charges in federal court.
Bible scholar Jeremy Lyon sues Baptist News Global for defamation
Jeremy Lyon, a former associate professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Truett McConnell University in Cleveland, Georgia, has filed a lawsuit against Baptist News Global alleging the publication defamed him during its coverage of a sex abuse scandal involving former university Vice President Bradley Reynolds.
Hillsong Church says property plans aren’t final after reports of multi-million-dollar development
Hillsong Church has confirmed it is in talks with “experienced development partners” about plans to develop its sprawling Hills Campus for the "long-term mission of the church and the benefit of the wider community," but nothing is final.
Australia’s largest Pentecostal denomination suspends Thrive Church leaders Brad and Amy Hagan
Brad and Amy Hagan, lead pastors of Thrive Church in New South Wales, have been suspended for six months by the Australian Christian Churches following an investigation by the largest Pentecostal organization in Australia into complaints about the couple’s leadership.
Pastor, former college basketball player gets 30 months for PPP loan, tax fraud
Ricky Lee Taylor, a former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball player turned pastor and businessman, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of probation after pleading guilty to wire and tax fraud connected to his abuse of the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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